Top 5 songs about a girl:

1. Jennifa - De La Soul
2. Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Ms. Fat Booty - Mos Def
4. Laura - Scissor Sisters
5. Song that Jane Likes - Dave Matthews Band

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Originally posted by Vykromond:
First five music websites I visit each weekday morning:

1. Tinymixtapes
2. Stylusmagazine
3. Pitchforkmedia
4. Metacritic
5. Popmatters

(Bonus: cokemachineglow on Thursdays, themilkfactory each month)

Mine:

1. Pitchfork
2. Fakejazz
3. Tinymixtapes
4. Popmatters (mainly just for the MP3s)
5. Stylus (okay, now I'm just filling space)

Top 5 Albums as of 11/16/2005

5. Godspeed - Lift your skinny Black Fist.
4. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
3. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
2. Wilco - Kicking Televisions
1. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill

Top 5 Songs as of 11/15/2005

5. The Way We Get By - Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
4. Waiting For Superman - Flaming Lips
3. Mistra'Know'Itall - Stevie Wonder
2. Transdermal Celebration - Ween (Live in Chicago)
1. Muzzle Of Bees - Live from the Fillmore

Top 5 Bands All Time

5. The Who
4. Rocket From the Crypt
3. Radiohead
2. Wilco
1. Phish

Top 5 Concerts that I've seen

5. Radiohead Live at the 10 Spot Hammerstein NYC
4. Phish - IT Festival, Limestone Maine
3. Wilco - Radiocity Music Hall 10/04
2. Sleater Kinney/Flaming Lips/Wilco new years MSG.
1. Rocket From the Crypt - any damn show.

Top 5 what could have beens:

5. Brad Nowell
4. Layne Staley
3. Marvin Gaye
2. Syd Barrett
1. Bob Marley

Top 5 things i need to see happen:

5. Matt Sharp makes Weezer good again.
4. Fred Durst - Spontaneous Combustion
3. MTV - Bankruptcy
2. Flaming Lips take over the world.
1. Somebody stops Bono.

Last one:

Top 5 things that make me laugh everytime

5. St. Elmo's Fire by John Parr
4. Africa - Toto
3. Frank Stallone (any context)
2. Steve Perry screaming at the end of Seperate Ways
1. R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet (GOOD GOD THAT IS THE BIGGEST STEAMING PILE EVER)

Top Five Bands I Got Into While Working at a College Radio Station

1. Wilco
2. Guided By Voices
3. Bloc Party
4. Kronos Quartet
5. Traffic (no kidding, I used to play them all the time)

Top Five Bands/Artists I Got Into While Shopping for Records at a Goodwill/St. Vinnies Bargain Bin

1. Jean-Luc Ponty
2. Sergio Mendes and the Brasil '66
3. Jethro Tull
4. Yes
5. Claude Bolling

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Originally posted by Ryan Nyburg:
Top Five Bands I Got Into While Working at a College Radio Station

1. Wilco
2. Guided By Voices
3. Bloc Party
4. Kronos Quartet
5. Traffic (no kidding, I used to play them all the time)

Nothing wrong with Traffic, my man. I wish I heard more of them on the local college station I listen to.

Top Five Rock Concert Films

Stop Making Sense
Concert For George
The Last Waltz
Woodstock
Monterey Pop
Honorable Mention: Gimme Shelter

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Top 5 albums on my desk at work right now

The Beatles - The Beatles
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
O - Cirque du Soleil

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Originally posted by mark f:
Top Five Rock Concert Films

Stop Making Sense
Concert For George
The Last Waltz
Woodstock
Monterey Pop
Honorable Mention: Gimme Shelter

I agree with the amendment. I really enjoyed Concert For George.

Tribute albums tend to be disappointing -- either simply rehashing an artist's work as faithfully as possible or making deliberately quirky departures that make no musical sense. Mostly, they leave you scurrying back to the originals. But there are some great tribute albums that genuinely reinvent and reinvigorate an artist's music.

Herewith the five best (i.e. my favourite) tribute albums:

"I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen"

Top tracks:
"So Long Marianne" -- James
"I Can't Forget" -- Pixies
"Who By Fire" -- House of Love

"Tulare Dust: A Songwriter's Tribute to Merle Haggard"

Top tracks:
"Tulare Dust/They're Tearin' the Labour Camps Down" -- Tom Russell
"Irma Jackson" -- Barrence Whitfield
"Kern River" -- Dave Alvin

"Songs of Jimmie Rodgers -- A Tribute"

Top tracks:
"Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line" -- Dickey Betts
"In the Jailhouse Now" -- Steve Earle
"T is for Texas" -- Dwight Yoakum

"Red, Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter"

Top tracks:
"Too Darn Hot" -- Erasure
"Begin the Beguine" -- Salif Keita
"I've Got You Under My Skin" -- Nenah Cherry

"Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt"

Top tracks:
"Angels Laid Him Away" -- Lucinda Williams
"Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" -- Mark Selby
"Chicken" -- Geof Muldaur


5 Honourable Mentions:

"Hank Williams Timeless"
"Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro"
"This is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies and The Kinks"
"Total Lee: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood"
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Songs of Pete Seeger Vol. 1"

Top 5 current bands that have an animal in their name:

Wolf Parade
Cat Power
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
The Mountain Goats
Modest Mouse

Top 5 Reasons to put the headphones on at work:

1. You hate hearing your boss talk about his son's new 60GB iPod, which is at least twice a day, that reminds you of how sad your 15GB iPod is in comparison.

2. So you can pretend to ignore everybody that comes into your area looking for something. When they ask you for something you can glance at them with that "I can't hear you!" look while you bob your head to the beat and shrug your shoulders.

3. When your co-worker in the cube next to you constantly jams to Kool and The Gang, which is a band you rather hear on occassion, like strictly at weddings and certainly not everyday.

4. When you are so bored at work that surfing the Internet just isn't doing it anymore.

5. When a good song shuffles on through iTunes and
it warrants a listen at 100% volume...

...those current TOP 5 songs are:

1. Modern World - Wolf Parade
2. Zoom! - Super Furry Animals
3. Off The Record - My Morning Jacket
4. The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
5. My Doorbell - The White Stripes

Top five artists who were kind enough to share their pain and beauty with us before they moved on too early.

1. Bob Marley
2. Nick Drake
3. Jim Morrison
4. Elliott Smith
5. Kurt Cobain

Top 5 British punk:

Crass - Christ the Album
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
Amebix - Monolith
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Subhumans - The Day the Country Died

Top 5 American punk (proto-punk not included):

New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
X - Los Angeles

Thrash/ speed metal to hold the devil's horns high (or to get wasted):

Voivod - Killing Technology
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Wehrmacht - Shark Attack
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

Essential Frank Zappa/ MOI you need:

We're Only In It For the Money
Freak Out!
Uncle Meat
Lumpy Gravy
Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Next set of essentials:

Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Waka/ Jawaka
Chunga's Revenge
Roxy & Elsewhere (live)
One Size Fits All

Handful of post '75 essential Zappa:

The Yellow Shark
Civilization Phase III
Sleep Dirt
Jazz From Hell
Thing-Fish

Five favourite (non-various artists) rock box sets:

Captain Beefheart - Grow Fins (Rarities)
Art Bears - Art Box
Fleetwood Mac - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Frank Zappa - Lather
Deep Purple - Listen Learn Read On

Top five most interesting female voices (in no particular order):

1. Beth Gibbons
2. Cassandra Wilson
3. Bjork
4. Tanya Donnelly
5. Fiona Apple

Honourable mention: Chan Marshall, Cyndi Lauper, Ani Difranco, Beth Orton, Tanika Tikaram.

I'm not even going to get into the blues/jazz gals. phew.

This is so much better than working!

My favourite five guitarists (again in no particular order...):

1. Duane Allmann (magic...)
2. Paco De Lucia (who's the slow hand now?)
3. John McLaughlin (but obviously)
4. Carlos Santana (before the atrocities that are Shaman and whatever the latest one's called. Yuck.)
5. JJ Cale (after midnight...)

also: Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green and Ani Difranco.

Top 5 Songs left off of Raving Lunatics lists concerning Trains Rain and Rivers.
1) Take Me To The River- Syl Johnson
2) I Wish It Would Rain- The Temptaions
3) Midnight Special- Leadbelly
4) Love In Vain- Robert Johnson
5) I Can't Stand The Rain- Ann Peebles

Top 5 songs I heard on the radio in the 90's as a teenager that I really miss and wish I heard more of now...

"Am I Wrong" - Love Spit Love
"The Freshmen" - The Verve Pipe
"Low" - Cracker
"No Myth" - Michael Penn
"I Nearly Lost You" - The Screaming Trees

Top 5 songs about trains left off Raving Lunatic and J_Deighton's list...

"City Of New Orleans" - Arlo Guthrie
"Stop That Train" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
"Orange Blossom Special" - Johnny Cash
"Locomotive Breath" - Jethro Tull
"Train Round The Bend" - Velvet Underground